adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fond memories (= about someone or something you like )
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She had fond memories of her aunt and uncle.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
especially
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Dotty Blundell had grown especially fond of Stella.
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He was especially fond of the words he found in articles on soccer-flat-booted, duck-hook.
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They are nearly all excellent and dead shots and are especially fond of shooting.
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Rob was her rapt audience, especially fond of her Hamlet.
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He is not especially fond of killing animals but, as a countryman, he sees culling deer as a necessity.
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I was especially fond of the chocolate biscuits decorated with crystallised violets.
particularly
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There were several large photographs and the one that he was particularly fond of certainly gives the impression of the successful impresario.
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She is particularly fond of animals.
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He is particularly fond of hot beetroot, recommending it as an accompaniment to roast saddle of hare - a delicious combination.
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Tins of things; they seemed particularly fond of tinned peaches, there was a whole stack of tins of peaches.
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The crew were singing: ... a bit he'd never been particularly fond of.
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The Bunuel family was particularly fond of these programmes.
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Mr Hurd seemed particularly fond of the idea.
quite
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Willie longed desperately to be in Mrs Hartridge's class even though he had since grown quite fond of Mrs Black.
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They are quite fond of each other, though of differing temperaments.
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Bernie himself was becoming quite fond of her and Noreen thought he saw more of her than of his sister.
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She was convinced that he was in reality quite fond of them both.
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Clara even grew quite fond of Mrs Hill, and proud of herself for feeling fond of one so odd.
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She is, however, quite fond of the commemorative scar.
rather
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And anyway she's rather fond of the chameleons herself.
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Like most people he was rather fond of house lizards.
so
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So he said that if she was so fond of water, he'd make sure she got plenty.
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I used to be pleased he was so fond of Diana.
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The jewels, the diamonds, the baubles you're so fond of?
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That is why they are so fond of reorganization.
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She had grown so fond of the big Lion she was glad he had been rescued.
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It was just that we were all so fond of her.
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Breeze was fond of Schumann, but not so fond that she could listen to him now!
too
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Come Epiphany, she had grown too fond of them to take them down.
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Apparently some people are just too fond of the Old Pueblo for their own good.
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He was a little too fond of drink and would occasionally get into fights.
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She was much too fond of Heathcliff, and the worst punishment we could invent was to keep her separate from him.
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Alice is an anti-smoking vegetarian who is already too fond of red wine.
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The old guard, too fond of international conferences, has given way to a younger breed of activist.
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Personally, I am rather too fond of my sanity to risk it in this way.
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He also was not too fond of dancing.
very
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Rosa said she was very fond of fish.
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He had always liked her, had grown very fond of her and now he was finding her intensely desirable.
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I was always very fond of Charlie.
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And he happens to be very fond of her.
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Annie herself had grown very fond of the child.
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Kirsty knows her well and they're very fond of each other.
■ NOUN
farewell
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History may come to see that embrace as a gesture of fond farewell .
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I just can't get off the scale Moby and I swapped fond farewells as She-She led me away.
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I bid a fond farewell to the stack of porno mags beside my bed.
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And after designing 72 issues of Zzap! 64 I bid you all fond farewell and big hello to Commodore Force!
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I see it as a fond farewell .
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It was to be fond farewells all round.
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My priestly friend set me down outside the two cathedrals and I bade him a fond farewell .
hope
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On that fond hope , she is likely to be disappointed.
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That overcautious disposition was noticed long ago, but there was a fond hope that experience would cure it.
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Love took over and my fondest hope was to win her hand.
memory
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Railway Street is a name retained as a fond memory for a public transport system axed by Beeching in 1966.
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I have some very fond memories of track life.
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However we're going home with fond memories of a marvellous competition.
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He ought to have fond memories of the place.
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He lived on, a myth, in their fond memories .
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I have only fond memories of my childhood in my own village.
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Her fond memories anyway, and what did Lucy think?
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I have fond memories of Sussex-playing pool and, much more to the point, the excellent discussions on science.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
absence makes the heart grow fonder
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But mostly this is a love story, and Andersen is clearly fond of his subjects.
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He was very fond of her but it strained imagination to see how she could fit into a policeman's life.
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I became fond of his face.
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She was much too fond of Heathcliff, and the worst punishment we could invent was to keep her separate from him.